Dragon Notes

[Katashi Terra]

DRAGONS

In ancient times, millennia ago, Dragons were the sole rulers of the land and the races of Earth Land were considered to be merely a food source for them. But in more recent times, the Dragons had become much less aggressive and much more territorial. Dragons were common enough that everyone would have heard of them and most mages or fighters had at least seen one once or twice, and in The Kingdom of Dragnof to the south of Ishgar they lived in harmony with humans. They were old and wise and the oldest of them were capable of a dangerous type of magic that they could pass on to humans known as 'Dragon Slayer Magic', though the younger dragons could simply breathe their element.

THE DRAGON BREAK

Ten years ago in a sudden and unexplained shift, the dragons suddenly disappeared overnight on a fateful day in X774. The scholars of the world still have no explanation for the event, though the disappearance of all the dragons is known to the majority of the world as the "Dragon Break" and is a mystery that many scholars still research to this day. The many theories as to where the dragons include things as simple as a mass extinction, or things as convoluted as time travel shenanigans being behind their vanishing. A secret known to very few is that their are a few dragons who remain throughout the world, in hiding or undiscovered.

THE KINGDOM OF DRAGNOF

The Kingdom of Dragnof is a kingdom on in southern Ishgar known for it's Dragons and other sentient races such as Humans living in harmony with one another. The monarch of the country is known as the "King/Queen" of Dragons and supposedly possessed the ability to transform into a Dragon. This country was hit majorly by the Dragon Break, losing a large number of it's citizens and military forces to the event as well as a lot of it's draw for tourism. Wyverns are a very common pet or mount in the Kingdom of Dragnof and thrive in the wild there, and the more intelligent Wyverns are treated as equal to the country's Dragon Citizens. There is a rumor that the country's royalty is advised by an Elder Dragon who survived the Break, though these rumors are unconfirmed.

WYVERNS

Believe it or not, Wyverns and Dragons are not the same thing. Whilst a Wyvern does possess draconian blood, making it vulnerable to the effects of Dragon Slayer Magic, it does not possess the ability to utilize Dragon Magic or Dragon Slayer Magic. A Wyvern is wild and ferocious, of simple mind and with primitive and instinctual personalities. Most cannot communicate with non-draconian species, but some of the eldest Wyverns in the world are intelligent enough to speak. Wyverns possess large reserves of physical strength, speed and durability as well as the ability of flight. They also possess keen survival and battle instincts, and some of the more developed ones are able to spit a poisonous acid.